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  • Venezuela: Regime bans six major airlines after tensions with US escalate

    Source: BBC News [UK state media]

    “Venezuela has banned six major international airlines from landing in the country after they failed to meet a 48-hour deadline to resume flights there. The airlines had temporarily suspended their routes into the capital, Caracas, after the US warned of ‘heightened military activity’ in the area. Angered by this, the Venezuelan government issued the carriers with an ultimatum that expired on Wednesday. While a number of smaller airlines continue to fly to Venezuela, thousands of passengers have been affected. The US has deployed a large force to waters off Venezuela, which it says is to combat drug trafficking but which Venezuela’s leader has denounced as an attempt to overthrow him. Venezuela’s civil aviation authority, which reports to the country’s ministry of transport, announced on Wednesday that Iberia, TAP Portugal, Gol, Latam, Avianca and Turkish Airlines would lose their landing and take-off rights with immediate effect.” (11/27/25)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0keyern0do


  • If you really love America, push it to live up to its promise

    Source: Orange County Register
    by Agustina Vergara Cid

    “I’ve been asked a few times why I chose to become an American at this juncture — after witnessing the decline of our institutions, freedom and values at the hands of leaders across the political spectrum. I still chose to become an American because I know that what’s been happening in many realms in this country is not what America is about. I know that forcing businesses to close, as happened during the pandemic, is not the essence of America, but a betrayal of it. I know that cracking down on freedom of speech and having masked agents roaming the streets is anathema to our core values. … Every attack on freedom and individual rights that we see in our country (now and historically) is not a consequence of American founding values, but of the deviation from them.” (11/27/25)

    https://archive.is/wnRBG

  • The WHO’s Campaign Against Safe Nicotine

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Roger Bate

    “Every two years, the 183 Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) meet for the Conference of the Parties (COP). This is the treaty’s governing body: a closed-door diplomatic forum where decisions are made on global tobacco policy, regulatory guidelines, technical documents, and the political direction of the treaty system. … The most revealing episode from COP11 was not about taxes or liability. It was the campaign against a small group of countries—Saint Kitts & Nevis, Dominica, New Zealand, the Philippines, and others—that dared to raise an uncomfortable but obvious point: safer nicotine products exist, millions use them, and the treaty should look honestly at the evidence.” (11/27/25)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-whos-campaign-against-safe-nicotine/

  • Don’t Let The Empire Gaslight You Into Believing You Are Powerless

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “It’s so easy to fall into the trap of believing there’s nothing we can do. Nothing we can do to fight the machine because it’s too large and entrenched, and nothing we can do to change our own personal circumstances because the deck is stacked so unfairly against ordinary people. It’s a strong illusion because at a surface glance it appears to be true. Our political systems are locked down by the rich and powerful to ensure that our votes don’t inconvenience them in any way, and any new political movement which challenges establishment power structures will find itself facing sabotage from the outside and from within. Our voices are kept marginalized and our countrymen have been turned into mindless empire automatons by a lifetime of propaganda indoctrination. And at first glance we appear to be just as powerless in our personal lives as well.” (11/27/25)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/27/dont-let-the-empire-gaslight-you-into-believing-you-are-powerless/